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Quine Versus Davidson By Gary (University Of Glasgow) Kemp 978019
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Oxford University Press
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9780199695621
ISBN-10
9780199695621
Date of Publication
2012-02
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Book Title
Quine Versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and Meaning
Item Height
221 mm
Author
Gary Kemp
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
Popular Philosophy
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384 g
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Number of Pages
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Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. So far as language and meaning are concerned, Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson are usually regarded as birds of a feather. The two disagreed in print on various matters over the years, but fundamentally they seem to be in agreement; most strikingly, Davidson's thought experiment of Radical Interpretation looks to be a more sophisticated, technically polished version of Quinean Radical Translation. Yet Quine's most basic and general philosophical commitment is to his methodological naturalism, which is ultimately incompatible with Davidson's main commitments. In particular, it is impossible to endorse, from Quine's perspective, the roles played by the concepts of truth and reference in Davidson's philosophy of language: Davidson's employment of the concept of truth is from Quine's point of view needlessly adventurous, and his use of the concept of reference cannot be divorced from unscientific 'intuition'. From Davidson's point of view, Quine's position looks needlessly scientistic, and seems blind to the genuine problems of language and meaning. Gary Kemp offers a powerful argument for Quine's position, and in favour of methodological naturalism and its corollary, naturalized epistemology. It is possible to give a consistent and explanatory account of language and meaning without problematic uses of the concepts truth and reference, which in turn makes a strident naturalism much more plausible.

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Quine Versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and Meaning
Publication Year
2012
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Language
English
Author
Gary Kemp
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Popular Philosophy
Number of Pages
202 Pages

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145 mm

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Gary Kemp

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